Dan Winterland - re. your post #16, actually it was the nav who didn't authenticate. The event took place on Suphpholk's phinest phigther squadron in about 1982 - the pilot was killing himself with laughter when he told us. He later became OC216 ; the nav reached very senior rank before retiring and has PPRuNed on many occasions, but not for a while now....
ShyTorque - Having met the owner of that broad Scottish accent, it didn't surprise me in the least that he said that.
Viet Taff town names are hard enough for non-Welsh speakers, but for our colonial cousins are particularly challenging. In the mid-1970s, you were supposed to call up on Low Level Common when entering an LFA as, until the late 1970s, they were rather small and it was sensible to know whether anyone else was there.
So one fine day, one of Uncle Spam's finest bells up on LLCommon: "All stations, all stations, this is Rhino 1 and 2. Flight 'a 2 F-4s, enterin' LFA 7 two miles southa' Lanind....Ladridnod...Larindod...ah, the hell with it. Three miles northa' Boolth Wells".